Doctor fill out right now the brand new book called life -- the new rules for winning in the real world he says it's a play by play of just how to avoid disaster in life and find a strong support system mark Cameron mathison. Sat down with the good doctor take a look. Are so passionate about this book security -- of what are you hoping. That people get out of your life -- well this is my -- book they I was excited about it as I was what I wrote my first book back in the late ninety's. I didn't intend to write this book it Carter wrote me actually. Because my belief is -- of the game changes. Bill and and the rules change. -- -- think about the explosion in the last generation of the Internet Facebook's social media things have changed in this world more than. He -- any generation to generation. That we've had in the last 150 years. So we have to have a new set of rules for life and that's what this is all about. And in implied in the title -- code and in new rules for winning in in the real world. Is -- -- way to say that if these did this is a -- -- to happiness. It is a playbook to so much more than happiness but yes but it is a playbook to effectiveness. It is -- -- -- to. Avoiding. Disaster it's. To do there -- you have to be careful who -- -- -- shelf with so. We have to. Pay attention to who we live next to us and who we don't think this is a very action oriented book. How to how to keep yourself -- those you love out of harm's way and how to get more of what you want for you and those you love. Very action oriented dots are very close together and ultimately leading us to happiness and in other. Great situations are you happy. If I was in the happier I would think it was a framework. Like mature works you don't thought -- and then so you know. Don't know look at yeah -- have -- Thanks for your time or.

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